What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[kendog]

Water leaks are PITA.
Should be a seal on the bottom of the door, make sure its free of dirt

OK, cool, I'll take a look in the morning if the weather stays good. I take it that it's a seal on the 'outside' of the door, or do I have to take the trim and metal skin out to get to the 'inside' of the door??

[Brisbane's Bora]

I may have had a similar problem, solution for mine is at the end of this thread;

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f14/rear-passenger-footwell-wet-67303.html

[VR6man]

OK, cool, I'll take a look in the morning if the weather stays good. I take it that it's a seal on the 'outside' of the door, or do I have to take the trim and metal skin out to get to the 'inside' of the door??

Open the door and look underneath, the seal is attached at the bottom of the door

I may have had a similar problem, solution for mine is at the end of this thread;
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...wet-67303.html

Been through you thread several times......
I have the same problem as you, already cleaned that seal twice. So filthy.
Might remove the trim/head lining because I suspect my rear drain pipe from the sunroof may have detached. Not looking forward to that.

[kendog]

I may have had a similar problem, solution for mine is at the end of this thread;
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...wet-67303.html

Thanks BB, I'll be getting straight into the bottom of the door tomorrow. After reading that thread, seeing the pics, and relating it to how wet the bottom of my door was at the time of 'flooding', I'm sure that's my problem.

Thanks again mate, that's one of my golf worries essentially laid to rest, and something I can do myself asap.

[Lito]

yay!!

[RolfGolf]

yay!!

A visit from Gav?

[Lito]

A visit from Gav?

yep. got my base tune loaded for my f4t

[RolfGolf]

Be interested to hear your thoughts when you've given it some right foot

[Njay]

yep. got my base tune loaded for my f4t

So no one has the f23 yet? Sweet first person on agu engine on vwwatercooled

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[h100vw]

A visit from Gav?

Daytime visit from the speedfairy.

[Cookie28]

ok well i finally managed to make a couple of videos of the vibrating/rattling noise my car has been making recently, it only took me about 2 weeks :face palm:, and hoping someone may be able to help... and sorry for the delay between the start of the video and the actually revving to get the sound happening... i was putting my phone on the ground then jumping back in to the car haha
I'm pretty sure that the first video shows the sound a bit better as i stuck my phone under the car for it and the second one is just on the gutter haha
(click on the videos to view them, not sure on how to post them up properly haha)




and my coolant light has been coming on a lot recently and i think i may have found the source for a leak but I'm not quite sure what part it is or if its a common fault so i took a couple of pictures.


and this one shows where the part is a bit better



thanks in advance for any help guys and i can take some better pictures or try and take some better videos too if it would help anyone out a bit more

[h100vw]

ok well i finally managed to make a couple of videos of the vibrating/rattling noise my car has been making recently, it only took me about 2 weeks :face palm:, and hoping someone may be able to help... and sorry for the delay between the start of the video and the actually revving to get the sound happening... i was putting my phone on the ground then jumping back in to the car haha
I'm pretty sure that the first video shows the sound a bit better as i stuck my phone under the car for it and the second one is just on the gutter haha
(click on the videos to view them, not sure on how to post them up properly haha)




and my coolant light has been coming on a lot recently and i think i may have found the source for a leak but I'm not quite sure what part it is or if its a common fault so i took a couple of pictures.


and this one shows where the part is a bit better



thanks in advance for any help guys and i can take some better pictures or try and take some better videos too if it would help anyone out a bit more

The leak is from the heat exchanger, there will be corrosion under the hoses. You can take them off anf clean up the corrosion but make sure you can get a new heat exchanger in case the outlets are shot away under the corrosion.

I didn't listen to your video.

Gavin

[Cookie28]

The leak is from the heat exchanger, there will be corrosion under the hoses. You can take them off anf clean up the corrosion but make sure you can get a new heat exchanger in case the outlets are shot away under the corrosion.

I didn't listen to your video.

Gavin

Thanks heaps for that and would you happen to know if it would be a job that I could do (as a bit of a noob to these things) possibly with the help of a friend??

[h100vw]

Thanks heaps for that and would you happen to know if it would be a job that I could do (as a bit of a noob to these things) possibly with the help of a friend??

There's a couple of things to trip you up.

The springy hose clips, not always easy to get off with anything but the proper tool. You can use some vice grips to good effect though.

Then clean up the outlets with some rough emery cloth ( my preferred abrasive ). Of course you need to drain the coolant too.

If that doesn't sort it or the heat exchanger needs to come off. Remove the oil filter, then under that is a 24mm (IIRC) nut which holds on the heat exhanger. There's an O ring at the top under the mount.

PM me an email address and I'll send you a picture of ETKA so you can see the order of things.

Gavin

[dylan8]

im going to say the catalytic converter has died cookie. mine lasted a year like that til the point i almost finished all the material inside and would have been spitting bits at people down the road.
either get the inside bashed out of it, or get a good quality highflow one and have someone cut it in, genuine VW part is soooo expensive as its like half the exhaust system

gave the bora a clean, took it to the MCM meet in melb with the agentz, stanceworks and VWW crew.